Lafayette police officers are continuing their investigation into a Sunday morning murder.

Charhonda Banks, 38, is in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center charged with Second Degree Murder. Police officers say they were called out to a hotel in the 1400 block of the SE Evangeline Thruway after someone reported hearing gunshots.

When police arrived at the hotel shortly after 4:00 Sunday morning, they found Gerald James, 43, dead in a hotel room from a gunshot wound. Police believe James and Banks had an argument prior to the shooting.

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